Overview
If you would like a certificate of completion to be issued for your Canvas Catalog workshop or course, you must be aware of the certificate requirements used by this learning management system. Unlike other LMS platforms that will issue a certificate based on a final grade, Catalog requires that all course content related to the certificate requirements are contained in modules. Further, it also requires the content to be completed in a sequential order.
Warning: If these settings are not put in place, certificates will not be issued.
Course Structure
We recommend creating a course home page as a brief welcome and overview that then directs the students to the modules. You may even wish to notify them that their certificate of completion is dependent upon them completing the modules in sequential order; this will hopefully prevent them from skipping around the content and preventing the certificate from being issued.
Configure Module Requirements
- Build your course within the modules. If you need guidance on how to create a module, please refer to the Instructure Overview dedicated to this topic.
- Once your module is built, click the Options icon (three vertical dots) on the module header and select Edit.
- In the settings panel, select the Students must complete all of these requirements option and check the box for Students must move through requirements in sequential order. Then, add each of the module elements to the list of requirements and qualify the type of activity required for each (e.g., "View the item").
- If your workshop or course has more than one module, you will also need to edit the subsequent modules using the same guidelines.
